This is a half-letter sized zine that is a reprint of an old Strangers title. Cover art by Ben Passmore.
As the Paris Commune of 1871 fought desperately against its own suppression, much of the city was set ablaze. Conservative journalists, desperate for a scapegoat, invented the pétroleuses—torch-wielding women desperate to burn everything. In this text, fairy-tale critic Wren Awry ties the pétroleuses into a long line of mythologized fire-wielding devil-women—women like Baba Yaga, the youngest sister in the Grimms’ “Fitcher’s Bird,” and the women burned during the great witch hunts of early Modern Europe—as a source of revolutionary inspiration.
Read a free version of the zine online here.
Wren Awry is a writer, food/history/folklore nerd, and the editor of Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid (PM Press, 2023)
This is a half-letter sized zine that is a reprint of an old Strangers title. Cover art by Ben Passmore.
As the Paris Commune of 1871 fought desperately against its own suppression, much of the city was set ablaze. Conservative journalists, desperate for a scapegoat, invented the pétroleuses—torch-wielding women desperate to burn everything. In this text, fairy-tale critic Wren Awry ties the pétroleuses into a long line of mythologized fire-wielding devil-women—women like Baba Yaga, the youngest sister in the Grimms’ “Fitcher’s Bird,” and the women burned during the great witch hunts of early Modern Europe—as a source of revolutionary inspiration.
Read a free version of the zine online here.
Wren Awry is a writer, food/history/folklore nerd, and the editor of Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid (PM Press, 2023)
